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Example sentences for "clock when"

  • It was eight o'clock when he reached the bank.

  • It was eleven o'clock when he heard Mary saying good night and Frazier went clattering up the stairs.

  • It was barely eight o'clock when he came into sight of the Rowland home.

  • It was after four o'clock when he left the Palace.

  • It was after ten o'clock when we returned to our hotel, at which hour Monsieur Crémieux also came.

  • It was four o'clock when we reached the second room.

  • It was after ten o'clock when we arrived at Helmsdale, tired and footsore, but just in time to secure lodgings for the night at the Commercial Inn.

  • It was about half-past ten o'clock when we started on our long walk along a circuitous and unknown route from John o'Groat's to Land's End.

  • Glasgow, and it was nearly ten o'clock when we reached that town, the train being one hour and twenty minutes late.

  • It was ten o'clock when I breakfasted, because I wished to do so with the Patisons, being so much pleased with their company.

  • It was nine o'clock when I said good-night, leaving my drawings with him at his request.

  • I walked off gayly, my dog full of life, but met no one till four o'clock when I passed the first salt well, and thirty minutes more brought me to Shawanee Town.

  • It was six o'clock when the Elizabeth left the wharf, and I had been busy with the fires since three.

  • It was two o'clock when we re-entered the house.

  • It was four o'clock when we set out, and already it was growing dusk as we took the foot-path through the stubble-field to Zehrendorf.

  • It was near nine o'clock when we halted upon the outskirts of the dark forest.

  • It was about nine o'clock when we reached the place where we were camped the night before.

  • It was near nine o'clock when we reached the edge of the forest, and drew up near the spot where we had entered the day before by the secret path.

  • It was about eight o'clock when we reached the place where we had entered formerly.

  • It was two o'clock when I awoke ravenously hungry.

  • It was eleven o'clock when we left land, and thinking my jewels would be safer in his pocket than in my bag, I gave them to him, and we anxiously awaited the arrival of the captain.

  • It was seven o'clock when I went out, and a quarter of an hour after, seeing a number of people in a coffeehouse, I entered it.

  • It was seven o'clock when we began our journey home, which we reached at midnight.

  • It was one by the village-clock When he galloped into Lexington.

  • It was twelve by the village-clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.

  • It was two by the village-clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town.

  • After crossing the river it was a walk of more than a mile to the abbey, and as we were tempted to linger rather long it was well after six o'clock when we re-crossed the river and resumed our journey.

  • It was about three o'clock when we left Jordans with a view of reaching Oxford, still a good many miles away, by nightfall.

  • It was about ten o'clock when we reached the excellent station hotel in Peterborough.

  • It was long after twelve o'clock when we reached Berlin, and we noticed that the big bridges connecting the city were well protected with soldiers.

  • It was one o'clock when we entered the Holland American office and gave up a good cabin on the Rotterdam for two berths in the auxiliary cabin on the Ryndam.

  • It was nearly four o'clock when I became so exhausted that I could keep awake no longer and slept for an hour and a half in an upright position.

  • It was after one o'clock when we reached Wassenaar, a small suburb of The Hague.

  • It was about four o'clock when we arrived at the hills near Pascuaro.

  • It was about eight o'clock when we left Pascuaro, and mounted the hills over which our road lay, and stopped to look down on the beautiful lake, lying like a sheet of silver in the sun, and dotted with green islands.

  • It was about ten o'clock when I started down the stream again to find a convenient ford.

  • It was not far from ten o'clock when we unloaded our wearied animals on the skirt of the forest near the long-looked for river, and camped close to our savage friends.

  • It was about nine o'clock when, after washing and saddling Czar, I rode off to examine the secrets of the wonderful valley.

  • It was three o'clock when we reached our hotel, and bade each other good-night and good-bye.

  • It was eight o'clock when we set out to return to our friends in the Foreign Office, and we bade our men take us through the main streets, that we might have a view of Yedo by night.

  • It was one o'clock when we emerged from our tomb to the air and the moonlight, and found our carriages waiting for us.

  • The outfit had been working a section of country around some lagoons, south of the ranch, and it was fully six o'clock when we met them, heading homeward.

  • It was nearly four o'clock when we left the hamlet, and by striking a free gait, we covered the intervening distance in less than an hour and a half.

  • It was fully nine o'clock when we reached it, Don Lovell in the mean time having overtaken us.

  • It was four o'clock when we reached Trent, and colder than on top of the Brenner.

  • It is five o'clock when we reach Kurfstein, which is also a restaurant, with a hot stove, and more Germans going on as if it were daytime; but by this time in the morning the coffee had got to be wretched.

  • It was nearly six o'clock when we reached Point of Rocks, but the sun was still high.

  • It was past one o'clock when we climbed up the bare road to the high town of Austin and went to the International Hotel for our luncheon.

  • It was nearly nine o'clock when we came into Eureka, and drew up at the dim lights of Brown's Hotel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clock when" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clock arrived; clock before; clock came; clock dinner; clock mass; clock next; clock noon; clock struck; clock that; clock the next morning; clock this; clock when; clockwise direction; cold roast; dear girl; decided upon; easily soluble; must still; never went; perfectly lovely; thousand dollars; true civilization; twice over; type locality; under colour; what remains